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TIL Bruce Willis only took the role in The Sixth Sense as part of a deal to compensate Disney for quitting The Brawler 20 days into filming

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YNVv TIL Julian Lennon had to buy the letters he wrote to his father (John Lennon) at an auction, because Yoko One wouldn’t give them to him.
bdG0 TIL Actor Jon Bernthal took a long vow of silence, to prepare for his role as a mute in the movie ‘Pilgrimage’ which allowed him to discover some important lessons about human nature. “I learned how much time people spend talking and they’re not really saying anything, they’re just passing time.”
rNeDy TIL: Over 30% of Vietnamese people have the last name "Nguyen", and almost 85% of people in the country have one of fifteen surnames
7rYLX TIL that Aldous Huxley, the author of ‘Brave New World’ and 'The Doors of Perception,’ requested 100 milligrams of LSD from his wife while on his deathbed. She obliged and he died on the same day as CS Lewis, Anthony Burgess, and JFK.
0l7j TIL that the monkey noise used in many jungle movies is actually made by the kookaburra, an Australian bird